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A pleasant, easy-going puzzle, this – ideal for those with lots to do and not enough time to do it, which, with Christmas closing in, probably means most of us. A few great clues, a few rather lazy ones (and I’m no fan of three-letter solutions), but all in all a nice way for me to sign off for the year. Sackfuls of thanks to everyone who’s read and commented on my posts this year, and to the marvellous FT setters. A very merry Christmas to you all!

This entry was posted on Thursday, December 22nd, 2011 at 11:00 am and is filed under FT.
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4 Responses to “Financial Times no.13,883 by FALCON”

Thanks for the blog – I wouldn’t call this all that easy, however. Re 19a, which I took a long time to parse properly, the “??” isn’t really necessary. As I finally remembered, “in 3 days” means (more or less) “after 3 days”… I agree about 13d too – excellent misleading CD.

6a I had r?a??? and ran through all the possibilities of r?a but never thought of rwa. I thought it was country not a language.
11a Kicking self
16a Didn’t have any crossing letters and never heard of him .
22a See 11a
2d Is an alphabet a series?
8d I doubt if I ever would have got that. Filed in the “too hard” cabinet.
13d Very good -if I’d had t?e? s?r?e?n I might have guessed it but only t??? s???e?n I couldn’t.

Thanks for the 2011 blogs

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